The Windows 7 platform makes it easy for developers to create engaging, user-friendly applications by providing familiar tools and rich development features that allow them to take advantage of the latest PC capabilities. The 46-page white paper summarizes...

Wondering what’s coming in the next version of Visual Studio? Come learn how Visual Studio 2010 advances developer productivity with new tools for application debugging, and designers for key technologies such as Sharepoint. See how the new modeling tools...

BuzzTap ( www.buzztap.com ), has built a aggregated sporting news engine, and allows people to consume via a traditional web site and Twitter feeds. This staff looked at how Internet Explorer 8 could enhance their efforts, immediately jumped into action...

Check-out this comprehensive blog post by Tim Heuer – who outlines all the cool new SL4 features announced at the PDC in November - with links to videos and code samples to help you get started with each new capability.  Here is a link to his complete...

ARCast.TV - Albert Pascual on how he built GeoTwitter Brian H. Prince sits down with Albert Pascual at the MVP summit to talk about how he built GeoTwitter.org . Brina and Albert talk about how Albert designed his system to leverage multiple mapping...

December 22, 2009 at 11:00am – 12:30pm PST Securing REST-Based Services with Access Control Service Presenter: Michele Leroux Bustamante Abstract: The Access Control Service (ACS), part of Windows Azure platform AppFabric, makes it easy to secure REST...

Microsoft Press has recently released "Introducing Windows 7 for Developers". Samples are presented in C++ and C# managed code. See the table of contents below. 1 Welcome to Windows 7 2 Integrate with the Windows 7 Taskbar: Basic Features 3...

Greg Duncan has cleverly put together a page that lists the PDC09 sessions with links to videos and PowerPoint's. Way to go Greg! Technorati Tags: PDC09 , Greg Duncan , Videos , Sessions , PPT , Silverlight , Windows Azure , VS2010

Check out Reed Townsend’s Windows 7 touch deep dive session at PDC. This session is targeted at developers interested in building touch-optimized experiences. Plenty of C++ code. You can watch the presentation online or download the presentation file...

RIA Services is a set of end-to-end experiences that makes it as easy to build Silverlight based n-tier applications as it is to build traditional 2 tier apps – some would say that it’s basically the new paradigm for client-server development in the 21st...

During Bob Muglia’s keynote at the PDC last week, Cameron Skinner from the Visual Studio team, presented a demo focused on some of the most exciting new features coming in Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4, and the server platform. The demo was built...

  Microsoft announced at the PDC last week the broad availability of the Microsoft Surface SDK Workstation Edition. Now anyone interested in developing collaborative, engaging massive multi-touch, multi-user experiences for Surface can easily access...

At the PDC last week, Microsoft demonstrated progress on browser performance and interoperable standards - in addition to showing how IE9 and Windows will make the power of PC hardware available to web developers in the browser. Especially interesting...

Darryl K. Taft , covering the Microsoft PDC for eWeek , interviews S. “Soma” Somasegar , senior vice president of Microsoft Developer Division about the advancements in support for parallel programming in the .NET Framework, something Soma calls data...

Last week at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference, Scott Guthrie unveiled a Beta version Silverlight 4. This latest version delivers hundreds of features and controls that, when combined with the continued innovation in Microsoft’s world-class...

Windows Azure Platform .NET Services (Service Bus and Access Control Service) is now called Windows Azure Platform AppFabric . Windows Azure platform AppFabric provides Service Bus and Access Control for you and your business partners to bridge assets...

Cloud Computing is often presented as an esoteric technology that is only interesting to large companies. In point of fact, small- and medium-sized companies will find the economics and technology opportunities very compelling. This weeks ARCast.TV...

The Interoperability Team was busy this past week at the PDC gathering all the interesting bits on the openness of the Windows Azure platform… What a week, with a lot of announcements, surprises and achievements on multiple fronts. From the interoperability...

One of the uses of Cloud Computing is to provide an environment in which organizations can run their own custom applications in the Cloud. This is important because most organizations today have an IT presence whose purpose is to build custom software...

Barton George , cloud computing evangelist at Dell, recently ran into Keith Pijanowski , Platform Strategy Advisor at Microsoft, and spoke to him about Windows Azure . Check out the video interview on Barton’s Blog Technorati Tags: Windows Azure , Cloud...

Title: Cloud-computing architecture – designing multi-tenant applications on Windows Azure. November 25, 2009, 11:00am – 12:30pm PST Speaker:  Joseph Hofstader Abstract: Cloud computing is one of the hottest topics in information technology today...

Title:  An Architect’s perspective on Silverlight 3 November 24, 2009 at 11:00am – 12:30pm PST Presenter: Tim Heuer Abstract:   Many .NET developers are becoming more and more interested in the Rich Internet Application development space, and...

Jason Zander put together a reference application “Image Viewer” that shows how to enable some cool Windows 7 features in your XP or Vista applications with relatively little effort and without sacrificing backward compatibility. Read the blog post for...

Roger Sessions , author of Software Fortresses and Simple Architectures for Complex Enterprises ,  has released a new whitepaper entitled ‘ The IT Complexity Crisis: Danger and Opportunity ’. The world economy is losing over six trillion USD per...

The Microsoft Sync Framework Power Pack for SQL Azure November CTP contains a series of new components that improve the experience of synchronizing with SQL Azure. This download includes runtime components that optimize performance and simplify the process...